Nonsmooth Schur-Newton methods for multicomponent Cahn-Hilliard systems

Abstract

We present globally convergent nonsmooth Schur–Newton methods for the solution of discrete multicomponent Cahn–Hilliard systems with logarithmic and obstacle potentials. The method solves the nonlinear set-valued saddle-point problems arising from discretization by implicit Euler methods in time and first-order finite elements in space without regularization. Efficiency and robustness of the convergence speed for vanishing temperature is illustrated by numerical experiments.